(I Try To Write The Sex Scenes With Webnovel Conditions In Mind, So It Won't Be Graphic. But I'll Be Releasing The Graphic Version Soon On My Discord)
She leaned in, hesitant at first like she was half waiting for him to pull away.
He didn't, and their lips met it was soft almost careful, then Mei made a small hungry sound in the back of her throat and the kiss turned messy (wet, open-mouthed, a little clumsy because they were both shaking). Tongues slid together, tasting each other like they were starving for it, every time her tongue brushed his a cold rush of Yin spilled into his chest, it was sharp and sweet and he couldn't help the low noise he fed back into her mouth.
They moved without breaking the kiss, Mei's unfolded her knees under her, spreading them in invitation and Longwei moved forward, clumsy for a second (his knee almost slipped on the damp stone) until he was settled between her legs, skin finding skin with every inch of contact opening another flow of power between them.
"More," she whispered against his lips, voice cracking. " I… I want..."
He lowered her down onto the pile of robes they'd been using as a bed. They were rough, a little damp from the mist but neither of them cared, Mei tugged at him until he was covering her from chest to breast to belly. Her nipples were so hard they ached, every time they scraped across his skin she shivered and made a soft broken sound that went straight down to his private.
Longwei slid a hand down her side (slowly like he was memorising the shape of her) and then between her legs. She was soaked, not just even wet but soaked and slippery and hot and trembling, the two fingers slipped inside her without any resistance and her hips jerked up to meet them. Her walls clenched around them and she let out a shaky little laugh that turned into a moan when he curled his fingers inside.
He pulled them out slow, watching her face while he rubbed her wetness down his length (once, twice) until he was slick and shining. Then he lined her up and with the head of his cock circled at her entrance.
"Here?" he asked, voice cracking half laughing because they both knew the answer.
Mei hooked her legs around his waist and pulled. "Yes, don't make me beg.."
And he pushed in.
One long steady thrust and he was buried all the way, Mei's back arched hard and her mouth fell open with a silent cry. She was so tight it almost hurt but the kind of hurt that feels perfect, and then her body softened around him, melting and taking him in deeper. He could feel her Yin wrapping around his Yang.
She didn't flinch this time, there were no ghosts, no walls. She opened wider with her thighs spreading and hips rolling up to meet him, taking every inch until his balls pressed tight against her ass.
This was it... the moment of true union.
The sensation was overwhelming, her yin enveloped him cold and perfect, gripping him with spiritual energy as much as physical flesh and his energy flooded into her in response, heat meeting ice and creating steam where they merged.
She opened wider.
Her cultivation base bloomed around his energy like a flower accepting rain. Her Yin didn't devour his Yang, it danced with it, creating patterns of exchange that the scripture had described but he'd never imagined actually feeling.
"Longwei," she gasped, nails raking down his back. "I feel... It"
He started to move.
Slowly at first then dragging out until only his tip kissed her entrance and then slamming back in, each thrust sent shockwaves through their joined cultivation, he felt her walls clench when his energy surged and she felt his cock throb when her Yin coiled tighter. There was no separation left.
"Ahhh," she moaned, legs locking around his waist, nails digging into his back. "Please... Keep going..."
So he did.
Slow at first (long dragging strokes that made her gasp every time he pulled almost all the way out), then harder when she started pushing back and meeting him halfway. The wet slap of skin on skin echoing off the cave walls, her breath hitching every time he bottomed out. Sweat made them stick together in places, her hair clung to her cheek and he kissed it away without thinking.
"Don't stop," she panted, legs tightening around him. "I'm close, I'm.."
He reached between them with his thumb finding her clit, rubbing messy circles because finesse was gone now.
"I think... I'm going to..." Mei's voice broke. "....I feel it...."
Longwei was feeling something too, his nascent core was crystallizing and the spark was becoming a flame, the flame becoming something solid. Foundation Establishment was within reach, rebuilt from nothing through this union.
And Mei in her Core Formation base was advancing, and the ice was melting into balanced energy and her sealed fire was beginning to integrate rather than conflict.
"Together," Longwei gasped. "We do this together."
"Together."
Their strokes intensified faster and deeper, the energy exchange reaching a fever pitch. The world was narrowing to just them, two bodies, two cultivations merging into something greater than either possessed alone.
The breakthrough hit like lightning.
Mei screamed and her cultivation base shattered but not destroyed, just reorganized. The ice and emerging fire suddenly finding harmony. Core Formation Stage Two stabilised around the new balance, power flooding through her meridians.
Longwei felt his own core solidifying, it wasn't just the spark anymore but now an actual foundation, while still small and fragile it was real. Foundation Establishment Stage One.
He'd done it, he had rebuilt what Zhou Chen destroyed.
The energy release was catastrophic at the end with Light blazing from their joined bodies, Yin and Yang spiraling together in a visible helix. The air temperature fluctuated wildly freezing then burning then freezing again. The spring water around them started boiled.
And through it all, they held each other riding eachother through the breakthrough and feeling everything the other felt.
When the light finally faded, they collapsed together gasping and trembling, something fundamentally changed.
Longwei's dick was still buried inside Mei's. Their energies still circulated together slower now, gentler but the connection still remained and she lay was warm against him with her skin flushed with color for the first time since they'd met.
"We did it," she whispered. "We actually did it."
"We did." He kissed her forehead, too exhausted to move more. "How do you feel?"
"Alive." She laughed, the laugh was pure and free. "For the first time in years, I feel alive! The cold is gone and the hunger is satisfied, I can feel my fire again, and it doesn't hurt."
"Good." He smiled against her hair. "That's good."
They lay together as the mist settled around them with their bodies still joined and their energies still intertwined, neither wanted to break the connection, atleast not yet.
"What happens now?" Mei asked after a while.
"Now?" Longwei considered. "Now we rest and recover until we're strong enough to face what comes next."
"And what comes next?"
He thought about it, about the Hunters that might still be searching for them, about CELESTIAL SWORD PAVILION. About all the enemies they both had and his betrayal, about planning his revenge.
"Everything," he said honestly. "Everything comes next."
Mei tightened her arms around him.
"Good," she said. "Let it come, we'll face it together."
"Yes."
Outside the cave, the waterfall continued its eternal fall.
The Forbidden Path had claimed him now and soon the world would learn what that meant.
They fucked twice more that night.
Not for cultivation even, though the energy exchange continued building their foundations, but the did it because they wanted to and because Mei was hungry for touch that didn't hurt, and Longwei was starved for connection that didn't betray.
And because they were alive and young, and discovering what it meant to be truly pleasured.
The second time was slower and more intimate, with Mei on top taking control and learning what made him gasp and moan beneath her but also learning about her own body's responses after being freed from the ice that had numbed her for so long.
The third time was desperate again with Longwei pinning her against the cave wall, her legs wrapped around his waist going in and out of her as he pleased. Both of them chasing the high of another shared breakthrough, they didn't advance, still Foundation and Core Formation Stage Two held but the pleasure were enough.
When they finally collapsed into the makeshift bed, they did it tangled together. Limbs intertwined with her head on his chest and his arm around her waist.
The boundary between them was gone.
MORNING CAME.
Longwei woke to gold light and Mei's absence.
He sat up quickly, ignoring his body's process and found her at the cave entrance. She stood naked in the morning light, staring out at the valley with an expression he couldn't quite see.
"Mei?"
She didn't turn. "You know, I was going to run."
His heart clenched. "What?"
"Just now, before you woke." Her voice was steady, ,the matter of fact type. "I was standing here thinking about how easy it would be to just dress up and leave, disappear before this gets more complicated."
Longwei rose, moving to stand beside her. "Why didn't you?"
"Because I realized I don't want to." She finally looked at him, and her eyes were bright with unshed tears. "For years, I've been running. From the palace, from the rituals, from myself, from any connection that might hurt when it breaks." She laughed shakily. "Then you happened, a broken man with a forbidden book and nothing to lose and d somehow you made me want to stay."
"Hmm..."
"I'm terrified, Longwei" she continued. "This bond we're building, I can feel it. Every time we cultivate, every time we touch it gets stronger and Soon I won't be able to tell where I end and you begin." Her hands were shaking. "What happens when you betray me? When you get what you need and discard me like everyone else?"
"I won't."
"You don't know that."
"I think I do." He took her hand, cold fingers wrapped in his warmth. "I can promise that right now, in this moment I value you more than the cultivation, even more than revenge." He met her eyes. "And if I ever betray that, you're free to hunt me down however you see fit."
Mei stared at him. Then, unexpectedly, she laughed.
"You're insane," she said.
"Hmm..." He smiled. "Probably."
She went quiet for a second, the dawn light painting her silver hair gold. Then she leaned against him with her head on his shoulder.
"Okay," she whispered. "Okay, fine."
"I mean you can still go."
"Shut up." But she was smiling. "You're stuck with me and all my trauma and all my terrible decisions."
"Quite the pair."
"The worst."
But Longwei knew this wouldn't last forever, nothing ever did.
And he was fine with that, fine with the moment because sooner or later he'll wage war on the people who betrayed him. But first he'll get stronger, while also enjoying the moments in it.